This document discusses integrating nutrient diversity into agricultural and ecosystem assessments. It outlines objectives to monitor nutritional composition produced by agriculture, identify species/varieties that add nutrition, and evaluate systems' resilience in providing nutrition. Calculations combine species traits and composition data using functional diversity metrics from ecology. Examples apply these metrics to farm diversity data and national food production/supply data to analyze nutritional functional diversity in agriculture.

1. Nutritional functional diversity
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3. Objectives
Overall objective: Integrate nutrient diversity in agriculture,
market and ecosystem assessments and planning
Specific objectives:
1. Monitor the diversity in nutritional composition produced
or supplied by agriculture and market systems
2. Identify species/ varieties that add nutritional diversity to
a system
3. Evaluate sensitivity/ resilience of a system for providing
nutritional diversity

4. Calculation (1)
• Uses functional diversity metric calculations – from ecological
sciences to combine traits with species composition
• Datasets: 1) species composition of plot/ farm/ market; 2)
food composition of species/ varieties

5. Calculation (2)
Free statistical software to
calculate Diversity metrics
www.nucleodiversus.org

6. Examples of application
Remans et al. 2011
90 farms sampled for farm diversity across 3 villages

7. Examples of application
Remans et al. 2014
FAO national food production and supply data

8. Thank you
Sustainable Diets Metrics Workshop
Montpellier, 4-5 November, 2014
Roseline Remans